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Eh? Blue collar guys can vote for MEPs, businesses can't. .

Ezee bikes have always used a keyswitch in the positive line from battery to controller. They easily handle over 20 amps and like all Ezeebike owners I used mine on and off with two models every ride, with no problems over years of use. So you could buy one of those as a spare from Cyclezee...

It's not just inflation that Brexit will get the blame for, the government has just outlined their plans for a £12 billions cut in the social welfare budget. That's huge, and the cuts will hit hardest just the very people who were most likely to vote Brexit. As unfair as it might be, the...

Nissan will have eaten them all. ;) Seriously our financial state won't allow any backhanders, we're struggling already. .

But national companies are no different, they too move production to China etc. or opt to buy from there. Those like James Dyson for example, the EU didn't force him to move production. Companies like Brompton who hang on here at present are extremely rare and small in scale anyway. .

Many of the 27 EU countries scarcely need the UK at all. In addition Germany has openly stated that they can accept the loss of their UK business and there's no doubt that's true. So regardless of what the core EU enthusiasts want in the greater interest of the EU, if just some of the 27 won't...

But that's nothing to do with the EU, as here and the USA it's just due to the export of jobs to China and other Far Eastern countries. It's self inflicted injury due to greed and short-sightedness, no-one forced companies and consumers to buy cheaply from the Orient. .

If Le Pen does succeed, like Brexit it will be a return to the past, with all that's bad implied by that. .

As long as 2 out of 3 have the good sense never to vote for her or her party, it doesn't matter why. She and her party aren't the future, they are a dead past that won't lie down. .

Yes, with PSA and GM overcapacity in Europe, it's inevitable that if this deal goes through, both our plants will get the chop since both are going to be outside the EU and eurozone. So 4500 jobs transferred to France. Ellesmere Port and Luton had better be praying that the deal falls...

It was in 1970 they they went broke. Since the government were desperate not to lose their only jet engine maker, they split off and restarted the aicraft engine side as the sole original Rolls Royce company. Then a new company, Rolls Royce (1971) Ltd was formed for the car side, and they...

That would be high and certainly have effects, but as Zlatan has posted, a somewhat raised unsprung weight can be tolerated in designs, so long as it doesn't go too far. Suspension design is a complex of conflicting compromises, soft enough springing to maintain road contact and give sufficient...

Possibly not, but I'm comparing like with like, both new, not one new and one three years old. Anyway a diesel is very much the wrong choice for the driver I'm speaking of who almost entirely does short trips. In those circumstances it's a noisy rattlebox, taking too long to warm up and get...

I already take two blood vessel relaxant medications but the frequency of one had to be cut because they were triggering my heart rate going crazy. For an example, a few beats at a normal rate, followed by a surge at well over 200 beats a minute, then the heart stopping for a few beats interval...

That theory doesn't work! The bus drivers are often good though, some nervous to overtake me on the nearside so I wave them through with my left arm to reassure them that I'm aware they are there. (mirror fitted) .

Not relevant as a reply to me. His car is not precharged so cannot save money by using mains electricity. I've only been arguing the case for pre-charged hybrids where most of a users journeys are within the battery range. They can save since they rarely buy any petrol. .

Charging from the mains doesn't negate the hybrid part, the hybrid parts enable the pure electric operation for shorter journeys while still having an ICE car for longer trips. As I've posted, it's all about being the correct user to make prechargeable hybrid pay. That's someone doing...

We have cycle lanes like that, one near me that I ride is between the bus lane and fast traffic. .

Still you stubbornly miss the point, which wasn't to argue that hybrids are the best solution, they often aren't. But it's a fact that for a huge number of drivers who do moderate mileages they are best for them, because they avoid buying expensive petrol/diesel for almost all of their...

Yes, but I don't know why you responded. I wasn't arguing it's case just responding to Danidl's request for an explanation of the basis for wanting low unsprung weight. .